Tuberculosis made 10.7 million people ill in 2024, according to WHO's Global Tuberculosis Report 2025, and killed 1.08 million people who did not have HIV. India tops every one of our five rankings: total cases, deaths, cases in children, drug-resistant TB and cases diagnosed and reported.
Eight countries, two thirds of the cases
India had 2,710,000 new cases, Indonesia 1,080,000 and the Philippines 724,000. With China, Pakistan, Nigeria, DR Congo and Bangladesh, these eight countries account for 67.1% of the world total. Since 2015 global cases have fallen only 3.6%, while deaths among HIV-negative people fell 18.8%.
2.37 million cases never reported
Countries diagnosed and notified 8,329,390 cases, so about 2.37 million people who fell ill were not found or not reported. Notifications have risen 35.2% since 2015, and India now reports 92.2% of its estimated cases. Children are among the hardest to diagnose: WHO estimates 1.19 million children aged 0 to 14 fell ill.
Drug resistance: India by number, Russia by share
India had 130,000 new cases of multidrug- or rifampicin-resistant TB, the most of any country. But in Russia 53.1% of all new cases were drug-resistant, against 3.6% worldwide. Globally, resistant cases fell from 590,000 in 2015 to 390,000.
Summary
| Chart | India | World |
|---|---|---|
| Countries With the Most Tuberculosis Cases 2024 | 2,710,000 | 10,700,000 |
| Countries With the Most Tuberculosis Deaths 2024 | 300,000 | 1,080,000 |
| Countries With the Most Tuberculosis Cases in Children 2024 | 289,000 | 1,190,000 |
| Countries With the Most Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis 2024 | 130,000 | 390,000 |
| Countries That Diagnosed the Most Tuberculosis Cases 2024 | 2,498,584 | 8,329,390 |
About the data
All figures except notifications are WHO estimates with uncertainty ranges, republished in the WHO Global Health Observatory. Deaths follow WHO's convention of counting TB deaths among people with HIV under HIV, so WHO's headline death toll is higher. For the rate per 100,000 people, see our chart of countries with the highest tuberculosis rate; for another infectious disease, see our post on HIV by country.